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Helen Dale and I will be having a Zoom discussion for paid subscribers of her Substack plus paid subscribers of this Substack. It will be on Wednesday 25th October, at 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (where I am) or 10am British Summer Time (where Helen is). Further details are here.
A useful date and time converter is here.
As my schtick is applying history and the evolutionary lens to help understand events, I wrote a post on the background to the barbarities of Hamas. The destruction of Hamas, which is implacably opposed to peace with Israel and has relentlessly acted to sabotage any such possibility, would make a Palestinian state much more likely.
Like Helen, I have written on the recent (failed) attempt to amend the Australian constitution to entrench an Indigenous Voice: once before the Referendum and once after. Also like Helen, I took the latter opportunity to explain why Australia holds such referendums.
I hope folk will be able to join the fun.
Zoom meetup for paid subscribers
Would really enjoy it.
But, waking up to participate at 5am here typically makes the rest of the day less productive. Always had, but more so with getting older. Sadly, going further West in the US, it makes it as 4,3, and 2am. It would take a person expecting some fundamental resolution in a discussion (not what I foresee), to dedicate to a red eye Zoom in the US.
I am sure it will be a fun conversation. As long a zealot or two, whom you soundly explain and criticize, will not join and try to take over the discourse and 'woke' you all, as they often do. Many openings, but say on a subject of race and guilt, or on definition of infinite genders ;-) , and other such nonsense.
Is the link to the zoom in the above (I can't find it), or coming in a separate email? Cheers, M